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Welcome to watching Westworld the officially unofficial podcast for Westworld on HBO. I'm Jim. I may run and today

We're talking season four episode eight case Sarasara

That's my mantra coming into this episode a Ron case Sarasara whatever will be with this show will be because I

Don't know if you're aware of this yet, but we're all the way through season four and there still is no renewal from HBO for just season five

Yep, how can that be? I

Think that there is a good chance to show will not be renewed. I

Think that it probably would have been renewed with maybe a smaller budget and episode commitment, but like you know with the

The takeover by discovery guy we alluded it out on the instant take podcast and

their their you know want and the cut costs and

Pivot in different directions

This low rated and I know a lot of people have like oh look a million people are watching if you count piracy

It's just in that, but like I mean just look look look at the actual stats, you know look at those season one

Look at season two look at season three the audience has fallen off by half well not between season one two

But it's from season two season three season four the audience is shrunk quite a bit

And I guess that's one of the things like as I was watching this I watched this a couple more times and

You know, I've always admired to show structure. I've always admired to show themes and I think I was wondering and I saw a lot of people other

other people online wondering too. I

Wonder if

The show runners themselves kind of felt a little bit of that heat and it's like you know what let's

In this series in a way that it could serve as a fully recursive

simulation that like essentially Dolores is going to

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